Zapata Rose in 1992 & Other Tales
"Zapata Rose in 1992" is a new, expanded edition of the original "Tales of El Huitlacoche." Containing the original stories that have become favorites among many readers, the collection adds new tales, among them "Hidalgo, Adventure Capitalist, Sallied Forth to Aid the Third World," a tragicomic and edifying tale of a Chicano adventurer who is captured by Christian guerrillas in El Salvador and whose life is changed as a result. The title story describes the reawakening in the world-crucial year of 1992 of the most effective Indian revolutionary of the twentieth century, Emiliano Zapata, and evokes how his exemplary presence inspires indios, campesinos and mestizos around the Western Hemisphere to enter contemporary economic life.
Bio
Gary D. Keller, author of more than two dozen books of scholarship and fiction, is a Regents' Professor and director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University.
Praise for this book
Keller is an important Chicano author, a very funny man and a writer with a lot to say.
Nuestro
... an infectious humor and vitality where English and Spanish are richly, exuberantly intermingled.
Ann Tyler The New York Times
